Sheet Music

xoxoxoBruce · 02-18-2020, 12:45 AM

Sheet music, do you read it? Can anyone decipher what this tune is, or if it's gibberish?

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This art piece was made by a black woman in CA who spent much of her childhood picking cotton in the deep south.

Gravdigr · 02-18-2020, 07:50 AM

Theme from Shaft?

Happy Monkey · 02-18-2020, 09:34 AM

I can't read it into sound in my head, but I used to be able to read it and program it into BASIC on a Tandy 1000EX...

But given the context, and the very deep notes at the end of the first bar, I suspect it's "Swing Low Sweet Chariot".

Clodfobble · 02-18-2020, 10:21 AM

The measures and time signature are all messed up, I can tell you that much...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-18-2020, 10:39 AM

OK, then it's probably gobbledygook as music and most likely strictly art. Maybe music as the tie that binds is woven through the sharecroppers lives or something of that ilk. Thanks. I just wondered if I was missing something.

limey · 02-18-2020, 11:18 AM

It's Amazing Grace (red dots) basically. But yes, the time sig is missing and rhythm a bit messed up.

monster · 02-18-2020, 07:07 PM

xoxoxoBruce · 02-19-2020, 11:49 PM

A friend in Texas plugged the notes in his MIDI and because he's a tremendous keyboard play with tons of rock and classical experience started massaging the timing and all that related music stuff I don't understand. He sent me an mp3 only 20 seconds long, but it sounds to me like Amazing Grace. I wouldn't bet money on it though, I could very well be wrong.

monster · 02-20-2020, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by limey

It's Amazing Grace (red dots) basically. But yes, the time sig is missing and rhythm a bit messed up.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

...[details].... it sounds to me like Amazing Grace. I wouldn't bet money on it though, I could very well be wrong.

you may be right there...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-20-2020, 01:37 PM

I got a follow up explaining that stuff real musicians like Limey understand.

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Never thought about it but I guess it's in 3/4 time (3 beats to a measure), which is usually in the beginning of each line of music. then they didn't really make the note lengths fill the measures, so much of it didn't make any sense about which ones were right, the notes or the measures, and where.

If this actually helps with that, just look at the last two measures of the first line. And if you don't know what a measure is, it won't matter in a minute. In the second to last measure is hollow notes followed by filled notes. Filled notes play half as long as hollow notes. so the hollow notes get two counts, and the filled notes get one; three beats to the measure. Then in the very next measure, last one on the line, is filled notes followed by filled notes. So that measure only gets two counts, or one set of those notes should be hollow. Then when you hollow the first set, it quickly becomes "how sweet the sound" from amazing grace.

Which is clear as mud but it covers the ground.

So Limey wins an extended vacation on a stormy rock off the coast of Scotland.

limey · 02-20-2020, 03:40 PM

I’m used to trying to read music written down by people who’ve only got half the theory down ...

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xoxoxoBruce · 02-20-2020, 11:40 PM

You are a real musician.

02-18-2020, 12:45 AM	#1
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02-18-2020, 09:34 AM	#3
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I can't read it into sound in my head, but I used to be able to read it and program it into BASIC on a Tandy 1000EX... But given the context, and the very deep notes at the end of the first bar, I suspect it's "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	The measures and time signature are all messed up, I can tell you that much... __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

02-18-2020, 10:39 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	OK, then it's probably gobbledygook as music and most likely strictly art. Maybe music as the tie that binds is woven through the sharecroppers lives or something of that ilk. Thanks. I just wondered if I was missing something. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-18-2020, 11:18 AM	#6
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	It's Amazing Grace (red dots) basically. But yes, the time sig is missing and rhythm a bit messed up. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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02-19-2020, 11:49 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	A friend in Texas plugged the notes in his MIDI and because he's a tremendous keyboard play with tons of rock and classical experience started massaging the timing and all that related music stuff I don't understand. He sent me an mp3 only 20 seconds long, but it sounds to me like Amazing Grace. I wouldn't bet money on it though, I could very well be wrong. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-20-2020, 03:40 PM	#11
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I’m used to trying to read music written down by people who’ve only got half the theory down ... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

02-20-2020, 11:40 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You are a real musician. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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